"Santa"

"Yes Rudolf"

"Don't you think you should change to something more appropriate."

"Why do you think this outfit makes me look fat."

"No no of course not the dress is very fine and all."

"Thank you dear."

"Its just that the kids have expectations and I wouldn't want to see that outfit destroyed by the chimneys."

"Oh dear you are right ill change into that old outfit."

"And the beard and pillow."

" Yes dear I know. We do this every year."

"Don't forget to remove your makeup this time. The stories still tell about your blush on cheeks."

Hey I found and modified a fairy elf and added some swords to it. Its my new pick for my Title page. Take a look and let me know what you think.

This has to be the happiest day I can remember in 7 years. I got the results for a medical test (Karyotype) I had last week and I am officially in the ranks of the AIS. Which means that I can be declared officially a woman in the eyes of a certain organisation.

When I can get my feet back on the floor, I have to run out to the doctor's office to sign the release for the Doctor to share it with the office of the Presidency. This means a great deal to me. Please share in my joy!

Much peace

Lady Gwendolyn Khadijah Ellen bint Boucher

This article involves the "Conservative Movement" of Judaism. Even when this is approved the weddings will not be legal in all jurisdictions and not all Conservative rabbis will do such ceremony.

http://www.forward.com/articles/146826/

shalimar Note I am a lay associate with this group.

is there a way to bring a story from Microsoft word file to big closet without retyping it? this is a short Christmas story.
thanks to all that can help.

Happy Birthday JENGIRL, Have a Great Day Jennifer Richard

Inspired by Angharad's Christmas story, I went for a walk/run this morning. It took me an hour to do three miles, most of the time walking. But I had a blast. I love running.

I think its been like 4 years since last chapter of guardian princess and to be honest I was going through a lot, so after re-reading it and realizing I can't remember the character developments I had in mind, I've decided to ...well lets just say turn it on it's head and shake it up.....so I just hope you don't hate it=) the first new chapter will be up tonight or tomorrow at the latest.

It makes almost 3 years since I decided to 'join up' here. (going at 2y and 45 weeks at the moment).

Still no solution to any of my problems (see previous blogs) Just wanted to thank you peepz for
cheering me up with your stories and the few mails I received. You peepz together with a few other
online friends are what keeps me hoping for better days and not just plain giving up and 'freezing'
everthing out. Okay my pets also helped with that :).

Thanks

Lynne aka Kage no Inu

Just wanted to say that I've dipped my toe in the waters at Stardust. Some PMs have asked about early writings and so I've posted "Cross-Country". It's kinder and gentler, in keeping with Stardust policies, and it's one of my earlier TG stories. Re-reading before posting surprised me about some of the tropes and elements I've used later, but there are still some nice people in it. If you have comments or critiques, let me know here on BCTS rather than Stardust because I'm more comfortable with the BCTS system.

Enjoy the story!
Karin

Hey everyone! We're home! Our trip was successful and now comes the waiting as the paperwork is processed. Then pack all our stuff up and head due south. :)
Hugs!
Grover

Well, I've got my new glasses, and I feel pretty good about it. They are ladies, but not so fem I can't wear em around the ex, and I think they look cute. Much happiness.

Comments.

They can be a good thing, and a bad thing, you know.

And no, not the ones I get.

I recently commented on a story that hurt someone I regard quite highly, though it wasn't meant to do that. I regret that. A lot.

You know who you are. I don't expect you to come and tell me it's okay, because it isn't.

All I ask is the you find it in your heart to forgive me in time. Not right now, or in the next few weeks or months. Just in time.

The upshot here is to let all of you know to consider what you say in comments very carefully before you post them.

Maggie

I've been toying with something all day. I wrote Brandon standing back for the love to happen between a woman he was in love with and the woman she was falling for more than him who was also someone he loved more than blood family even if they'd never happen.

So...when two of my comments fro to really great girls (Hey Dorothy! Hey Lora!) mentioned what I've been toying with I though I'd actually put this out there for you all.

What kind of person should/would you like to see Brandon with. I'm not passing the buck but just wanting your take/s I have an Idea but I'd love to see yours.

I've been re-reading this series and wondered if there'd be any interest in me doing another episode. The reason I haven't for a long time is that I find it harder to write than my other series, in places it's a bit intense emotionally.

Anyway, if there's enough interest I'll think about writing some more.

Angharad.

'Tis the season and many eBooks of BCTS authors will (hopefully!) be purchased. Whether you like books by Nancy Cole, Erin Halfelven, Angela Rasch, Donna Lamb, or my own, please help us out by rating the books and posting a review. We get your feedback by comments on our stories at BCTS, but none from our online books. So let us know!

Thank you, and have a great and safe holiday season!

Karin

PS: Readers of different formats have PMed me asking for whereabouts of my (and others') books. Mine are at:

There is a heading in "My Accounts" which summarises the total number of kudos which a writer has received. I would jealously chortle over the hundreds of thousands (actually I have to tell the truth....a few hundred) of these precious little items every day, somewhat like Gollum with his ring....my pressshhhusss.

I WENT TO LOOK TODAY AND THEY WERE GONE! ALL GONE!

I am scared, scared of society, scared of judgment, scared of pain, scared of emotional hurt.

I have lived through my emotional pain, first when i was 12 and found i did not fit into society. Then at 21 when i was raped, and again when I lost my mother, the only person to ever accept me fully as nothing but her child with unconditional love, at 29.

I am a girl by sufferance. I was not born a girl, didnt have a girlhood to learn the nuances of being a girl. I do not believe I really "pass" as a girl by any objective standard. So I am a girl by sufferance. My girlhood can be taken from me by words - "Him", "Sir" or my male name. It can be taken from me by actions - isolation, rejection, contempt. No "natural" girl will ever know what that feels like, to be "tolerated" like I'm some crazy person that no one has the energy to argue with.

Thanksgiving and I have an abscessed tooth. Not good on vicodin and Amoxcillin. Not feeling good right now. I probably won't be eating much thanksgiving anything tomorrow. the pain with aspirin and Vicodin is about a 6.5 out of ten and I can't chew on the right side of my mouth. I am still alive at least.

Happy Thanksgiving anyway

Paula

Well, Supergirl is over. Long live Ms. Marvel! This got a better reception than I hoped, but there is going to be a long lapse before there is more. Understanding Spouse and I are heading to check out the Tampa Bay area before moving there next month. The usual turmoil of such things will make any writing I do very problematic. This also means if I'm out of contact for a few days, don't worry everything is fine! I should be back online Monday at the latest, but will be up to my neck in sorting, packing and arranging for things to hopefully go smoothly.

Happy Feasting Day!
hugs
Grover

For those of us that celebrate it, I hope y'all have a great holiday! My favorite thing to be thaankful for is that I found this wonderful site. I'm thankful for all of those who've read my stories, and those who write the stories I enjoy so much. Thank you, my friends!

Wren

Our modem has died, so through the years will be delayed till we get new one from Frontier. I'll take this break from Everquest to try and catch up and get ahead on writing

Hi

Just a quickie... When Fortune smiles is now on Kinddle.... When Fortune Smiles

It will stay here for those who still want to read it.

Tanya

I just found out that Anne McCaffrey passed away Monday, November 21, 2011 after having had a stroke. The world is now a little darker place without her glowing wit and untold stories. Requiescat in pace

A South Florida TG is in the news.

Well, my ex will get sworn in as a Canadian citizen today, and we are going to attend. I have to be in "male drag" - my mother's expression, giggle.

Ok, so I had a weird experience tonight. It started yesterday. I flew out to my parents place for Thanksgiving and got in yesterday afternoon. I made the final decision a couple of days ago that I was going to come out to my parents before the end of this vacation, even if had to hand my mom a letter before I boarded my flight home.

I went out with this woman. She misread my text of when we would meet, so she was really angry with me for no good reason. When she saw that she had misread the text she kept face-palming herself.
The impression I got was that she was acting like a teenage girl.

What I would like to ask people is (I don't want to insult- this is a genuine question), are women who take hormones in a continual state of puberty or do you think she was imbalanced?

I've just sent the latest chapter of this version of the saga to Maddy, who will doubtless post it in the next week or so. I'm intending to wrap this book up in the next few chapters hopefully resolving the Meadows question as I go along, otherwise we could end up with a four book trilogy - duh!

I'll do a link when it's posted.

Angharad.

I read Dorothy Colleen's entry called "A Tapestry of Stars" earlier today and I felt compelled to share something with you all. Before I do, I need to explain something. Every star on the tapestry mentioned in that story represent all of the TG men and women who have been murdered for being who they really are in the area the story takes place in.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8377071/woman-injected-clie...

LoL
Rita

I know that what I'm about to relate will seem like a very minor problem to those of you who have much more serious problems in your lives, but blogs are all about what bothers us, or what makes us happy, no?

Well the old year is over, now for an just over an hour, i begin my 48th tour around the sun... i want to give my birthday wishes to all here who feel the draw of the feminine. i want to thank all the readers and authors and the really wonderful family i have found here... my wish to you is that the dreams you dream become as real as you want them to be. happy birthday to me yesterday... and a day of remembrance today
Best thoughts,
Diana

The next bit of book 9 is now complete!

http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/gaby---more-changes-pa...
http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/gaby---more-changes-3/121...

Hope you enjoy this latest slice of Gaby's life.

Mads

Hiyo! your favourite little old News Agrigator Me, with sciency stuff on Physical Sex development... a fascinating read from Boing Boing.

Gender isn’t a simple thing. A person can be male, female, both, neither, and more–and that identity doesn’t have to have anything to do with the particular genital plumbing they were born with.

But the plumbing itself–the biological sex, rather than gender or socio-cultural sex–is also a lot more complicated (and interesting) than we often give it credit for.

This popped up in my Twitter feed today: Juliet Jacques in the New Statesman examines My Transsexual Summer, while also taking an opportunity to comment on media coverage in general of those on the transgender spectrum. The article also links to several other reviews of the series so far.

New Statesman - My Transsexual Summer: The trouble with television

I've sent PM's, but got no response. I know Real Life can be a hassle, but I'm a little worried.

Wren

i guess it was bound to happen, just like it has happened numerous times before. I have been once again disowned by my mother.

This time she did it more subtle than the last. The last time she disowned me she told me I was dead to her... that was in 1998. This time she just unfriended me on facebook. This is what got her so upset, my last status update from facebook on my main account.

Well, my "Quest" story has officially moved into "Novella" territory. I dont think I can make a novel, but its going to be longer than any piece I've done other than "Trial of the Phoenix". I've got a ways to go, so we'll just have to see what the final tally is ...

I watch to show on the Transgender children they had a 6-8-11 year old little TGIRLS the 6 YO is soooo cute OMG so cute . The 8 YO told mom she wanted to be a witch for holloween and mom said boys are not witches on the way home she had a tamtrum in the car and on arriving home bolted out of the car into traffic trying to kill herself OMG. The 11 YO started to go into male puberty and is now on blockers, out of all of them the 11 YO was a tomboy and I think is still finding hershelf as far as being a girl.

Just noticed this interesting tidbit.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/16/andrea-jones-transg...

They still can't decide what defines a man or a woman.

Portia

This is going to be a rant.

Why am I doing it here? Because she doesn't know I exist on here and if I speak to her now I may drive one of us to suicide, preferably her.

Well, today I'm feeling super sick. I have a headache, feel like I'm running a fever, and I have thrown up once already this morning. Not only that, my daughter is home sick with her mom, having missed the last couple of days of school, so whatever it is must be going around. I hoped I could do some writing today, but ah, well.

School has been keeping me pretty focused and that has gotten in the way of my writing. Not a fan of that. Just how annoying do things have to be? Really? I just want to write some in order to relax, as that helps me out a lot more than most any other type of stress relief. Granted I am a weird dork for that but I am fairly okay with that.

No big deal, but I have tweaked the first two parts a little to smooth out some new author's nervousness.

Tommorrow morning 11/16/2011 on the ANDERSON COOPER SHOW he is having TRANSGENDER children and thier parents CHECK your local listing on the east coast where I live it is 9 AM on ABC sounds like an interesting -- HUGS EVERYBODY LOVE RICHIE2